Question

Although bile juice have no digestive system. It is still considered to be very important for digestion of food. Give 2 reasons..

Answer 1

Bile juice is very important because (1) it emulsifies fats and (2) the acidic chyme formed in stomach gets neutralised by its alkaline nature. If acidic food was to enter the intestine from stomach it would have burnt it as its ph is bery low due to the presence of HCl.